Folding bed



E. GRANT.

FOLDING BED.

APPLIUATION FILED FEB. 17, 1908.

Patented Apr. 6, 1909.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMMTA GRANT, OF GLOQUET, MINNESOTA.

FOLDING BED.

To all whom it may concern:

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 17, 1908.

Patented April 6, 1909.

Serial No. 416,301,

overhang a portion of the underlying rail.

Be it known that I, EMMA GRANT, a citizen I In the modified form of saiddevice said of the United States, residing at Cloquet, in the county ofCarlton and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Folding Beds; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

My invention relates to folding beds and has for its object theprovision of a simple, convenient, efficient and cheap folding bed.

It consists of the constructions, combinations and arrangements of partshereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a preferred form of my invention. Fig. 2 isan enlarged erspective view of one corner of a modified orm of myinvention. Fig. 3 is an enlarged erspeotive view of one corner of saidpreerred form of my invention, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspectiveview of a hasp forming part of my invention.

In the drawings, 1 and 2 are the side rails of the bed and 3 and 4 arethe end rails thereof, which end rails are hinged in any suitable mannerand by any suitable means, as by hinges 3 and 4* respectively, to one ofthe said side rails. Said side rails are connected together by acollapsible floor of any suitable structure, as by a sheet of canvas 5,secured at one edge to one of the side rails and at the opposite edge tothe opposite side rail. Pivotally secured to each side rail near eachend thereof is a leg, as 6, 7, 8 respectively, and in the preferred formof my invention shoulders 10, 11, 12 and 13 respectively, of anysuitable form are formed on or secured to said side rails above theupper ends of said legs and extending down at one side of the leg, tolimit the pivotal movement thereof and to relieve the pivoting means ofexcessive weight. In said preferred form, I also provide a hasp 13,secured to one of the rails and overlapping another of said rails andprovided with an aperture 15 in its free end adapted to receive a staplesecured to said other rail and adapted to extend upward through saidaperture. In such form, a removable key 1 1, preferably in the form of ahook is also provided and adapted to extend through said staple abovesaid hasp.

staple and hook, as related to the hasp, may be omitted, and in suchcasea hook 15 may be secured to one of the rails and adapted to engage ananchorage, as a screw eye 15 secured to another of said rails. Straps 16may be secured to one of the side rails and adapted to encircle bothside rails when the bed is folded, to secure the same in foldedposition.

Assuming the bed to be set up in operative position as shown in Fig. 1,it may be folded in the following manner. The legs may first be swung upparallel with the side rails, the hooks 14 or 15 may then be retractedand the free end of the hasp lifted, the side rail which is free fromthe end rails may then be drop ed a trifle to give clearance to the endrai s and the end rails may then be swung inward parallel with the railto which they are hinged. The side rails may then be drawn toward eachother, in which latter 0 oration one of the side rails may, if desired,be rolled in the canvas. The straps ma then be passed around both siderails an buckled in the usual manner of seourin straps around packages.To open the be and set it up into operative position said operation maybe reversed.

If desired, legs as 17 may be ivotally secured to the free ends of theen rails in manner similar to the securing of the legs to the siderails, which legs on the end rails will operate to relieve the hasps ofexcessive strain. In folding the bed, the legs 17 should be swung upparallel with the end rails before the end rails are swung on theirhinges toward the side rail to which they are hinged. Cleats-19 and 20may be Secured to suitable ones of the rails to operate as stops againstwhich another rail or rails may bear.

It is obvious that within the spirit and scope of certain of my claims,said invention may be further modified. or altered in some particulars.

What I claim is:

1. In a folding bed, the combination of two rails connected together bya collapsible floor, two other rails hinged to one of the first saidrails and adapted in operative position to extend at an angle thereto,and means for securing the second of the first said two rails to theopposite ends of the said other two rails in operative position.

2. In a folding bed the combination of two of said rails and adapted inoperative two reils connected together by a collapsible position tosupport the same and in retracted floor, two other rails pivotellysecured to one position to'lie parallel with the rails to which of saidrails and adapted in operative posithey are secured. 15 5 tion to extendet an angle thereto in an sp- In testimony whereof 1 hereunto efifix myroxinietely horizontal plane and rude Jted signature, in presence of twowitnesses. 1n retracted position to exten erelle to f the rail to whichthey are pi'votelly secured, EMMA GRAN means for securing the other ofthe first said -Witnesses: 10 two rails to the said two other rails inopera- F. C. COOLBAUGH, tive position, and legs pivotelly secured to lW. H. SKEMP.

